MGIS Primary School Topics

There are two ways to design play for children in the digital age, especially if your game is a product that you want parents to buy to support the learning and development of their children.

 

You can either: guess or observe.

 

Guessing is where you imagine what children need, you look at the research on paper, you think about your childhood or your children's experience and you develop an app, a digital learning environment, a toy, a puzzle that you believe will be appropriate for children.

 

This is a reasonable way to develop a product, it is also very hit and miss. We see a lot of apps being developed in this environment and not enough testing or iterations of an idea. We see simulations of toys and many copies of successful interactive tools. It isn't surprising many fail to meet both the creators' and parents' expectations. Young children, well they just don't give poorly designed learning tools a second chance.

 

With observation you need more patience ...

Via Carisa Kluver

Adults are starting to trust their kids with their smartphones, but can children trust the grown-ups to download the best apps?

Via Jon Samuelson

Top 10 TED Talks from Inspiring Teachers - Educational Technology and New Pedagogies

Via Susan Bainbridge, Petra Pollum

Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey developed a chart that explains the differences between personalization, differentiation, and individualization.

 

Read more, very interesting...:

http://barbarabray.net/2012/01/22/personalization-vs-differentiation-vs-individualization-chart/

 

Via Gust MEES

In the last decade, an emerging body of research has explored using the shared-book reading context to increase preschoolers’ print knowledge. The motivation to increase children’s attention to print during storybook readings is based on evidence indicating that preschool-aged children very rarely look at or talk about the print during adult–child shared reading, even when the storybooks contain very “print-salient” design features

Via Nik Peachey

★★★★★ this is amazing stuff! & so true. i have asperger's syndrome & so far, i'm finding it to be incredibly educational.. and at least partly written by a 12-yr-old!!!

Ideas and links for using infographics.

Via jemp, kathyvsr

This is a book for primary school teachers of English written by primary school teachers of English. It brings together the experience and expertise of teachers from around the world to provide a range of stimulating and exciting classroom activities for the primary classroom. There are 50 tried and trusted activities which have been refined and improved over the years by teachers working in diverse contexts and environments. Children will enjoy practising their English through these stimulating and motivating activities.

Via Nik Peachey

How you can start personalizing learning in 5 minutes, 5 days, 5 weeks, 5 months, and beyond.

Via camaher

Thanks to reader Michelle Anthony, I’ve learned about ScootPad. It lets teachers set-up virtual classrooms to monitor student progress in grad one-to-three reading and math lessons. And it’s free.

Via camaher

...Flexible grouping practices {Groupingpresentation copy.ppt}
Grouping strategies {Cooperative Grouping Strategies.pdf}
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Via kathyvsr